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Re: Abriged noun clause

I don't know where to choose as a place of residence.

b

PS If this is homework, shame on you - but I'm not particularly worried about having helped, as I expect your teacher isn't looking for so much embroidery! (The thing about abridgment is that you miss stuff out, and what you miss out could be almost anything.)

Re: Abriged noun clause

Originally Posted by BobK

I don't know where to choose as a place of residence.

b

PS If this is homework, shame on you - but I'm not particularly worried about having helped, as I expect your teacher isn't looking for so much embroidery! (The thing about abridgment is that you miss stuff out, and what you miss out could be almost anything.)

Thanks a lot.
I'm trying to understand abridgement in noun clauses.

I don't know where to choose as a place of residence.I think this sentence also contains an abridged noun clause since the noun clause uses the infinitive and it doesn't contain its own subject.
Correct me please.

Re: Abriged noun clause

I can tell you one thing though - "He offered me where to live" is not a correct English sentence. Did you mean "He offered me somewhere to live"? Or possibly "He offered me a place to live"?

I suspect angel-girl1's mother tongue allows this sort of use of a question-word as the the subject or object of another clause. The example that springs to mind is Portuguese: O dinheiro de quem não dá é o trabalho de quêm não têm - 'The money of him who doesn't give is the work of him who doesn't have [anything].'